Wednesday, March 15, 2006
BOOKS & ESSAYS. SOME RECENT BOOKS ON EUROPE
. London Review of Books
- Gerard Delanty & Chris Rumford. Rethinking Europe: Social Theory and the Implications of Europeanization. (London: Routledge, 2005). When I saw this book at Scheltema, I immediately thought: "Another boring book written by sociologists". In fact, from what I've read, it looks like the authors do a pretty good job at describing things like nationality, governance, enlargement, etc. More info: Rumford's website.
- Franz Fischler & Christian Ortner. Europa. Der Staat, den keiner will. (Zürich: ecowin Verlag, 2006). In this book about the Unwanted State, co-written with Christian Ortner, an Austrian journalist, Mr Fischler (former Austrian EU farm commissioner) tries to map out answers to stop the EU from "collapsing". He recently told the Financial Times on that EU enlargement may never reach Ukraine and possibly Turkey, and that both countries could instead be granted some kind of special partnership arrangement with the EU.
- Mark Leonard. Why Europe will run the 21st Century. (London: Fourth Estate, 2005). The always optimisitic Leonard sees Europe "not as a tangle of bureaucracy and regulation, but as a revolutionary model for the future". Why not? (Warning: the book was written before the French and Dutch referenda). More info: read over 15 reviews here.
- Glyn Morgan. The Idea of a European Superstate: Public Justification and European Integration. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005). Harvard scholar Glyn Morgan argues that Europe has "centralized what it should not have centralized, and has not centralized what it should have". He argues for an American-style European Union.
. London Review of Books
- Gerard Delanty & Chris Rumford. Rethinking Europe: Social Theory and the Implications of Europeanization. (London: Routledge, 2005). When I saw this book at Scheltema, I immediately thought: "Another boring book written by sociologists". In fact, from what I've read, it looks like the authors do a pretty good job at describing things like nationality, governance, enlargement, etc. More info: Rumford's website.
- Franz Fischler & Christian Ortner. Europa. Der Staat, den keiner will. (Zürich: ecowin Verlag, 2006). In this book about the Unwanted State, co-written with Christian Ortner, an Austrian journalist, Mr Fischler (former Austrian EU farm commissioner) tries to map out answers to stop the EU from "collapsing". He recently told the Financial Times on that EU enlargement may never reach Ukraine and possibly Turkey, and that both countries could instead be granted some kind of special partnership arrangement with the EU.
- Mark Leonard. Why Europe will run the 21st Century. (London: Fourth Estate, 2005). The always optimisitic Leonard sees Europe "not as a tangle of bureaucracy and regulation, but as a revolutionary model for the future". Why not? (Warning: the book was written before the French and Dutch referenda). More info: read over 15 reviews here.
- Glyn Morgan. The Idea of a European Superstate: Public Justification and European Integration. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005). Harvard scholar Glyn Morgan argues that Europe has "centralized what it should not have centralized, and has not centralized what it should have". He argues for an American-style European Union.
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